I have had a mission like this before which ended up timing up on me. It is not that there is not enough time on this one. I don't know what to do to kind this contact or pirate once at the new destination.
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Newcomer / Intro Stuck on Kill Pirate Mission
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"Make contact with the informant" usually means going to the system and waiting until the informant sends you a message. Target him and when he drops out of the supercruise, follow his wake. When you drop down, he's going to give you the info about the pirate.
Or you can circumvent that, go to the original target system and use the FSS to locate the mission USS. Or sometimes you get lucky and your target pirate will appear in the supercruise where you can either interdict him or tail him until he drops somewhere and then follow his wake.
Or you can circumvent that, go to the original target system and use the FSS to locate the mission USS. Or sometimes you get lucky and your target pirate will appear in the supercruise where you can either interdict him or tail him until he drops somewhere and then follow his wake.
Jump to Patosata and then hang around near the star until the informant appears on your contacts...
They should message you asking you to follow them. The informant will then drop from supercruise, you’ll have to select their low wake to follow them.
They will then provide you with a mission update to find the pirate, often they’ll send you back to the original target system and you’ll realise just how much FD enjoys wasting your time on something they believe is good content.
They should message you asking you to follow them. The informant will then drop from supercruise, you’ll have to select their low wake to follow them.
They will then provide you with a mission update to find the pirate, often they’ll send you back to the original target system and you’ll realise just how much FD enjoys wasting your time on something they believe is good content.
If I don't do this immediately, the wake disappears. Is the mission buggered?
You can try jumping out and back into the system. That might re-trigger it.
Lots of bad information in the replies here 
Nope - other than a rendezvous with the informant you will not find the target in the original system. You can come across the target in the new system where they relocated too, but that is unlikely (I managed it once).
I'd recommend getting away from the star at least a bit - the informants have a nasty habit of appearing very close to the star and you can end up burning up trying to get to their wake.
No. Very old information there - in the hundreds of assassinations I've done in the last week they always choose a 3rd system to go to. After a while you can guess which are likely, but I haven't seen the ever choose the original system (though as the poster says, they used to do that).
Nope - other than a rendezvous with the informant you will not find the target in the original system. You can come across the target in the new system where they relocated too, but that is unlikely (I managed it once).
I'd recommend getting away from the star at least a bit - the informants have a nasty habit of appearing very close to the star and you can end up burning up trying to get to their wake.
No. Very old information there - in the hundreds of assassinations I've done in the last week they always choose a 3rd system to go to. After a while you can guess which are likely, but I haven't seen the ever choose the original system (though as the poster says, they used to do that).
Just go back into SC and they will normally reappear. On rare occasions they decide to spawn near a secondary star and you might need to chase them.